Example of Stem Cell Research
About: Cell Transplants Restore Sight in Blind Mice
... they said the new study showed for the first time that light-detecting retina cells -- which in this case were taken from other animals but which scientists have begun to grow from human embryonic stem cells -- can orient themselves properly after being injected into a blind eye, connect to other nerve cells and communicate appropriately with visual centers in the brain.

The finding challenges conventional biological thinking, because it shows that cells that have stopped dividing are better for transplantation than the stem cells that normally make new cells.
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Transplanted mature rod cells did not work, nor did fully immature retinal stem cells, Ali's team found.
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From mice to man
It would be difficult to obtain equivalent human cells for transplantation, because they would have to come from fetuses in the first or second trimester of pregnancy. But Maclaren says that it may soon be possible to grow the correct retinal cells from adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells.

"For example, we injected the cells into mice with damaged retinas due to diabetes or other eye injury. The cells (labeled green) migrated to the injured eye, and incorporated and lit-up the entire damaged vasculature. The cells are really smart, and amazingly, knew not to do anything in uninjured eyes."
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- stem cells
- biology
- retinitis pigmentosa
- cells
- church and state
- rational inquiry
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..The reason that the embryonic stem cell research community has been so vocal in advocating for federal funding of its work is that private investors virtually abandoned them in the late 1990s. Private investors have learned that there simply is little hope that money invested in embryonic stem cell research will produce a financial return anytime soon. Taxpayer money, on the other hand, is a much easier thing to obtain and spend in unaccountable ways — so that’s the game being played by the embryonic stem cell research community.
..Meanwhile, the public is fed lines about “cures” for terrible diseases and conditions being just around the corner if only federal funding is made available — as if money spent automatically translates into to cures discovered. It doesn’t.




Well, science & materialists can't find a soul or spirit so in matters of the mystery of life I would trust more those who can.

But what really seems strange to me is that if religious activists object to killing doomed embryos, then why don't they object just as strenuously to the fertility procedures that create them to start with. To me, sans that strenuous objection, their efforts are unmasked as hypocrisy and just an excuse for religion to meddle in government - something that i had though you objected to yourself.


I am also against the preponderance of the religion of materialism & pseudo science in government as well.
I am also against the preponderance of the religion of materialism & pseudo science in government as well.


(2) The problem with faith based rules in our government is that different sects have different beliefs. You cannot legislate in favor of one to the determent of the other and serve all the people.
(3) I realize that conservatives have been propagating the meme that Secularism is a religion; but it is not. For a movement to be a religion is must be based on faith. The absence of faith is not a faith.
(2) The problem with faith based rules in our government is that different sects have different beliefs. You cannot legislate in favor of one to the determent of the other and serve all the people.
(3) I realize that conservatives have been propagating the meme that Secularism is a religion; but it is not. For a movement to be a religion is must be based on faith. The absence of faith is not a faith.


(2) The problem with faith based rules in our government is that different sects have different beliefs. You cannot legislate in favor of one to the determent of the other and serve all the people.
You're wrong in #2: in that nobody is legislating faith based rules. You have to derive your morals & guidance from some place. As yet we don't have big brother inside our heads to prevent us using whatever guidance we want. (You still didn't answer the twice-asked question of where Obama got his morals & guidance to ban cloning but take the fruits of abortion & give them to science - perhaps he just took a poll, eh?)
[I whited out those parts of your comments which are being covered elsewhere.]
(1) Being religious has nothing to do with legislating religious doctrine into the law of the land.
You're correct in #1: but, nobody is trying to do that!
[This is a rational train of though. I will continue it only if the well know rules of rational argumentation are followed.]
(3) I realize that conservatives have been propagating the meme that Secularism is a religion; but it is not. For a movement to be a religion is must be based on faith. The absence of faith is not a faith. ...
You're wrong in #3: To be a materialist or a scientist who is a materialist you have to have faith that all there is can be perceived by the 5 material senses. You may also be co-mingling belief & faith. To be an atheist you almost have to be insane!
[Confusion and name calling whited out]
(1) Being religious has nothing to do with legislating religious doctrine into the law of the land.
You're correct in #1: but, nobody is trying to do that!
[This is a rational train of though. I will continue it only if the well know rules of rational argumentation are followed.]
(2) The problem with faith based rules in our government is that different sects have different beliefs. You cannot legislate in favor of one to the determent of the other and serve all the people.
You're wrong in #2: in that nobody is legislating faith based rules. You have to derive your morals & guidance from some place. As yet we don't have big brother inside our heads to prevent us using whatever guidance we want. (You still didn't answer the twice-asked question of where Obama got his morals & guidance to ban cloning but take the fruits of abortion & give them to science - perhaps he just took a poll, eh?)
[I whited out those parts of your comments which are being covered elsewhere.]
I am ignoring yellow highlights however clever you think they are - .
(3) I realize that conservatives have been propagating the meme that Secularism is a religion; but it is not. For a movement to be a religion is must be based on faith. The absence of faith is not a faith. ...
You're wrong in #3: To be a materialist or a scientist who is a materialist you have to have faith that all there is can be perceived by the 5 material senses. You may also be co-mingling belief & faith. To be an atheist you almost have to be insane!
[Confusion and name calling whited out]



(3) I realize that conservatives have been propagating the meme that Secularism is a religion; but it is not. For a movement to be a religion is must be based on faith. The absence of faith is not a faith. ...
You're wrong in #3: To be a materialist or a scientist who is a materialist you have to have faith that all there is can be perceived by the 5 material senses. You may also be co-mingling belief & faith. To be an atheist you almost have to be insane!
[Confusion and name calling whited out]




I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end.
On this, Obama has nothing to say. He leaves it entirely to the scientists. This is more than moral [... moral indignation snipped]
The Obama administration today is announcing guidelines for government-sponsored embryonic stem cell research but the draft regulations would limit federal funding of work on human embryos donated at fertility clinics.
The guidelines being issued by the National Institutes of Health open the door for a vast expansion of the research, but stop short of allowing scientists to create human embryos for research purposes or pursuing cloning techniques.
I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end.
On this, Obama has nothing to say. He leaves it entirely to the scientists. This is more than moral [... moral indignation snipped]
The Obama administration today is announcing guidelines for government-sponsored embryonic stem cell research but the draft regulations would limit federal funding of work on human embryos donated at fertility clinics.
The guidelines being issued by the National Institutes of Health open the door for a vast expansion of the research, but stop short of allowing scientists to create human embryos for research purposes or pursuing cloning techniques.

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